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GENDERED BODIES, GENDERED EARTH: AN ECOFEMINIST ANALYSIS OF POWER IN KAMILA SHAMSIE’S HOME FIRE

2026-05-05T09:00:43+00:00

Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire has been widely read as a novel about citizenship, Muslim identity, radicalisation, gender, grief and state surveillance. The connection between its regulated bodies and its material language of soil, burial, territory and bodily exposure, however, have not been the focus of sustained ecofeminist analysis. This article tries to fill that gap by engaging in close reading that is informed by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva’s description of linked systems of domination. It asks how political and patriarchal power regulates bodies and access to place, and how care, grief and burial contest that power. Through this analysis, it can be seen that the interrogation in the airport is a form of mobility that is stateful, as the interrogation of the body is always a prerequisite condition and self-presentation is in a controlled manner. Karamat Lone has described Parvaiz as a contaminant of British soil, making the very ground of the nation an exclusive property, thus bringing the punishment beyond death. Aneeka’s effort to recover, touch and bury her brother challenges the official division of body, family, and home. Her Karachi vigil also affords insight into the way her grieving body becomes a public space up for grabs in the media, religious commentary, security measures, heat and dust turn her grieving body into a contested public object. Read together, these scenes locate the novel’s ecofeminist significance in borders, burial, material belonging and in the politics of return. This article extends ecofeminist criticism into the urban and diasporic politics of citizenship and identifies care as a counter-ethic that reveals the human cost of exclusionary law.

Linguistic Capital and Power Relations in Shark Tank Pakistan: A Bourdieusian Sociolinguistic Analysis

2026-07-30T17:53:04+00:00

This paper investigates linguistic capital and the production of power relations in Shark Tank Pakistan from the perspective of Bourdieusian sociolinguistics. Shark Tank Pakistan is an Entrepreneurial reality television show where language is negotiated as symbolic capital to employ entrepreneurs' credibility in seeking investments and Sharks’ authority in granting investments in their businesses. The study employs Bourdieusian Sociolinguistic Analysis (1991) and conversational analysis (CA) to investigate how persuasive strategies are used by entrepreneurs for legitimacy in investment negotiations and how Sharks assert authority through questioning and interruptions. For this purpose, four episodes are purposively selected from Shark Tank Pakistan season one (2024-2025). The results indicate authority and identity as negotiated with conversational control and turn-taking and the persuasion and negotiation techniques as linguistic capital, which is a combination of the ethical, emotional, market appeals to credibility. The code-switching between Urdu and English is the indicator of social stratification as a sign of cultural embeddedness and professional and financial power. It is also through interactions that a neoliberal meritocratic ideology is reproduced, where success is seen to be based on individual ability and initiative and structural obstacles are kept very private. Altogether, the paper proves the way in which televised pitches perform authority, justify entrepreneurs, and support socio-economic hierarchies in modern Pakistan.

Urdu-English Vocabulary Development Assessment in Bilingual Young Children: Focusing on Domain-Specific Vocabulary Growth and Conceptual Scoring

2026-05-20T17:58:53+00:00

This study examined vocabulary acquisition in Urdu-English bilingual toddlers across five domain-specific topic areas: animals, vehicles, kitchenware, food, and body parts, over six months. The final analytic sample comprised 110 children from Urdu-dominant households in North Nazimabad, Karachi, assessed at two time points using structured picture-card vocabulary tasks. Vocabulary knowledge was scored in three ways: Urdu-only, English-only, and conceptual scoring, which credited knowledge of a concept in either language.

Results showed measurable vocabulary growth across domains from T1 to T2, with receptive knowledge consistently exceeding expressive production. Conceptual scoring produced the most complete estimate of bilingual lexical knowledge, whereas English-only scoring underestimated children’s vocabulary and increased the risk of classifying children as having low vocabulary when they knew the relevant concepts in Urdu. Baseline-adjusted models further indicated that domain-matched caregiver input, child interest, interactive English exposure, and SES were associated with vocabulary development in theoretically meaningful ways.

Overall, the findings support the use of bilingual and conceptual scoring in early vocabulary assessment and show why domain-specific interactional experience must be considered when interpreting lexical development in multilingual Pakistani contexts.

Perceptions of Pakistani University Teachers About The Influence of Popular Social Media on Their Spoken Language: A Sociolinguistic Exploratory Study

2026-07-29T17:00:09+00:00

The purpose of this study was to find out how Pakistani university instructors perceive the effects of utilizing well-known social media sites on their spoken English. These days, social media platforms are important places for people to engage with one another. Language use has been profoundly impacted by social media in several ways, including writing and speaking. New forms of written language, such as blogs, tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram status updates, and more, have proliferated since the internet's inception and the substantial growth of social media networks. Globally, people use social media platforms to communicate interactively. The current study is exploratory in nature and has employed qualitative techniques to gather information through interviews. The study examined the alterations or patterns, inclusions, and exclusions that university instructors see in their spoken English that are attributable to the impact of widely used social media on their spoken language. Data was collected through interviews and was analyzed thematically using Braun and Clark (2016) thematic analysis model. The study finds that the social media can be considered a strong addition to spoken English development among university teachers in Pakistan. Social media can be used to add value to language skills and pedagogical performance; however, when used irresponsibly, it can breach the rules of formal language.